[tex-live] error on (after) texlive 2008 installation

Ulrike Fischer news3 at nililand.de
Thu Apr 16 10:56:42 CEST 2009


Am Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:40:32 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:

> BTW, there is one thing I don't understand:
> 
> When updmap-sys is invoked by getnonfreefonts-sys, I get the error
> message: 
> 
>    Updating map files (updmap-sys)...                          
>    !!! ERROR! The map file `dvips35.map' has not been found at all.
> 
> But:
> 
> $ kpsewhich -format=map dvips35.map
> ### returns nothing
> $ texhash
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/tex live/2008/../texmf-local/ls-R... 
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/tex live/2008/texmf/ls-R... 
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/tex live/2008/texmf-config/ls-R... 
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/tex live/2008/texmf-dist/ls-R... 
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/tex live/2008/texmf-doc/ls-R... 
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/tex live/2008/texmf-var/ls-R... 
> texhash: Done.
> $ kpsewhich -format=map dvips35.map
> /usr/local/tex live/2008/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/dvips35.map
> 
> It seems that after installation texmf/ls-R is not up-to-date.

Probably dvips35.map is a generated map (and its content depends on
the setting of dvipsDownloadBase35 in the cfg). So it doesn't exist
when after the installation the ls-R are generated. 



-- 
Ulrike Fischer 



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